KaiOS 3.0 is currently available to select models in North America, as of September 2021.
We’ll make updates in our official website and the Help Center as soon as our partners roll out more models globally in coming months.
Provide you with location tracking and navigation. Once it is enabled, the apps and services in your phone can detect your phone’s location and provide you location-based information.
Important:
Although KaiOS supports the GPS feature, available functionalities can vary per device. To learn more about the features available on a particular device, please check your device manual or contact the device manufacturer.
Important: Some devices, such as the Alcatel Go Flip 2, do not support system updates. For more information, contact your KaiOS device manufacturer.
Software updates on KaiOS phones are deployed over-the-air (OTA) by device manufacturers.
To download updates, you must:
KaiOS supports predictive text, but adding words is not currently possible.
Although KaiOS supports predictive text, available functionalities can vary per device. You can find information about specific devices on this page. To learn more about the features available on a particular device, please check your device manual or contact the device manufacturer.
KaiOS does not support autocorrect. We are always improving the OS, so this feature may become available in the future.
KaiOS supports predictive text or autocorrect. We are always improving the OS, so this feature may become available in the future.
To switch between languages, long press the # key before typing.
KaiOS currently supports the 88 languages listed below:
Afrikaans
Albanian
Arabic
Armenian
Assamese
Azerbaijani
Basque
Belarusian
Bengali
Bengali (Bengali)
Bodo
Bosnian
Brazilian Portuguese
Bulgarian
Catalan
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dogri
Dutch
English GB
English US
Estonian
Filipino/Tagalog
Finnish
French
French (Canada)
Galician
Georgian
German
Greek
Gujarati
Hausa
Hebrew
Hindi
Hungarian
Icelandic
Indonesian
Italian
Kannada
Kashmiri
Kazakh
Khmer
Konkani
Lao
Latvian
Lithuanian
Macedonian
Maithili
Malay
Malayalam
Manipuri
Marathi
Nepali
Norwegian
Oriya
Pashto
Persian (Farsi)
Polish
Portuguese
Punjabi
Romanian
Romanian (Moldavia)
Russian
Sanskrit
Santhali
Serbian (Latin and Cyrillic alphabet)
Simplified Chinese
Sindhi
Sinhalese
Slovak
Slovenian
Spanish
Spanish (Latin America)
Swahili
Swedish
Tajik
Tamil
Telugu
Thai
Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong)
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
Turkish
Ukrainian
Urdu
Vietnamese
Xhosa
Zulu
To switch between languages, long press the # key before typing.
KaiOS is based on the Firefox OS open-source project. Our source code is on GitHub.
We do not own, and therefore cannot share, code that is owned by device manufacturers. For access, please contact the device manufacturer.
Use your mobile data to connect another device to the internet using Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or USB.
Important:
You can adjust your KaiOS phone to your accessibility needs using the accessibility settings available through Settings > Device > Accessibility.
Accessibility options may include:
Available features may vary per device. You can find information about specific devices on this page. To learn more about the features available on a particular device, please check your device manual or contact the device manufacturer.
To find, lock, or erase your data from a KaiOS phone in case it gets lost, create an account on KaiOS. When you create a KaiOS account, information associated with that account automatically syncs with your phone.
To add a KaiOS account, your phone must:
Add an account
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